In Kiev said the number of Ukrainian participants in hostilities in the Donbass

The representative of the ministry of defense of Ukraine andriy lysenko at the briefing actually reported, a number of ukrainian military servicemen and persons equated to them, and in 2014 participated in the civil war in the Donbass. In this case, the ministry of defense of Ukraine don't know how to call the armed conflict taking into account the fact that earlier the verkhovna rada deputies voted in favor of renaming the so-called "Anti-terrorist operation (ato)". Mr. Lysenko was quoted by ukrinform: since the beginning of the antiterrorist operation with the insignia of the ministry of defence was awarded more than 45. 5 thousand people, the state awards – 39 594 thousand people. The status of combatants received 218 thousand 67 military personnel and the armed forces of Ukraine, who participated in the ato. It is officially recognized that on Donbass alone combat operations against the population of this region was involved almost 220 thousand soldiers.

If this information is true, it turns out that the ukrainian military department for three years daily issued approximately 200 certificates of combatants. And if the whole army (220 thousand people) now will require incentives (e. G. Free land), which previously said Poroshenko, the ukrainian military budget will go solely on the content of "Combat veterans of the ato. ".